DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES OF PERIPHERAL COUNTRY AREAS

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DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES OF PERIPHERAL COUNTRY AREAS

Journal Title: Roczniki Naukowe Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Rolnictwa i Agrobiznesu - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 6

Abstract

The objective of the elaboration is to identify challenges and threats to the socio-economic development of rural peripheries resulting from the specificity of the demographic processes taking place in these areas. Detailed research (2004-2016) covered border communes of Podkarpacie. The peripherality stem from their cross-border location and position in relation to regional and national development centers (distances – availability). It was found that the surveyed areas face large demographic challenges resulting from small and declining population (low population density index) that results from both historic reasons, migration processes as well as negative natural growth index. These processes affect the unfavorable age structure of the population with the whole “package” of problems that accompany the aging population jeopardizing the development of the surveyed entities, limiting the possibility of full use of their endogenous potential. Demography is becoming a barrier to the peripheral development of the border regions.<br/><br/>

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Grzegorz Ślusarz

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EP ID EP345455
DOI 10.5604/01.3001.0010.7934
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